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I know my opinion doesn’t matter to those who matter, but it rather matters to me and probably to you, my reader. Since I saw what electricity could mean to the car industry and how it can revolutionize the way and what cars consume energy, I totally changed my mind about biofuels and other burnable [...]

Photosynthesis is the process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, mostly sugars, using sunlight energy. In translation it’s the process that helps plants assimilate the elements they need to grow. By this plants take the carbon dioxide from the air and release into the atmosphere oxygen. But what if we could use this process [...]

Biofuel is generally defined as energy obtained from biomass, through direct combustion, alcohol fermentation, and methane fermentation. Biomass, the raw material of biofuel, especially for bioalcohol, can be classified into sugar-based (sugar cane, sugar beet, etc), starch-based (corn, potato, sweet potato, etc) and wood-based (wastewood, rice straw, wastepaper, etc).
Today, most of the liquid biofuels are [...]

 
Almost all commercially produced liquid biofuels come from either sugary crops like sugar beet or cane, or starchy ones like potatoes or corn. But every acre used to cultivate those crops uses one that could grow food - potentially causing food shortages and pushing up prices.
Using woody material instead of crops could sidestep this to [...]

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about Stirling engines, and how heat can be transferred to a system and converted to do mechanical work. A Stirling engine works this way: you have two chambers communicating with each other: one that is being heated, and one cooling the hot air. The temperature difference between [...]

China has a lot of rice in there. In fact, you all know China is famous for their rice crops who everybody imports and enjoys. The researchers have always avoided rice as a biofuel source because it cannot be processed by the bacterias that make the biofuel.

Baton Rouge, LA (June 27, 2008) – Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump [...]

Biofuels have seen ups and downs in the public’s eyes in recent years. Producing biofuels from eatable plants, such as corn, is a bad idea, while producing it from other fast-growing wild plants is a good idea. Plus, the carbon footprint is almost zero, because the carbon emitted is almost equal to the carbon deposited [...]

Biodiesel has recently become a very controversed biofuel. It can be obtained from vegetable oil, animal fats, used cooking oil, microalgae and is a potential replacement of petroleum-based diesel fuel.

Why waste your money on fossil fuel when you can make your own biofuel reactor? Michael Fisher has developed a bioreactor which uses algae to produce oil. What is very interesting about his invention is the bioreactor itself, which is made out of recycled bottles.
In a previous post on Green Optimistic we already debated the [...]